People vote despite devastation from Sandy

Merely a week after Superstorm Sandy ravaged much of the East Coast, people tried to balance recovering from Hurricane Sandy and voting.

Pictured: Voters waited in a line that stretching several blocks, to cast votes in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, N.Y. on Nov. 6.
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Jodi Lawsky looked at a military vehicle with a sign with information about polling sites in the Rockaways, N. Y.
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Poll workers wore masks to protect themselves from dust at a polling site located in a tent due to the area's continued recovery from Hurricane Sandy in the Rockaways.
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People voted in a tent in the Midland Beach neighborhood of Staten Island, N. Y. As Staten Island continues to recover from Superstorm Sandy, a few polling stations have been relocated due to power outages or ongoing use as an evacuation center.
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People voted at the fire house in Atlantic Highlands, N.J. due to storm damage from Hurricane Sandy at their normal polling stations.
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Voters exited the voting tent in the Midland Beach neighborhood of Staten Island.
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Saajida O'Quinn wore a protective mask as she prepared to vote in a makeshift tent set up as a polling place at Scholars' Academy, P.S. 180, in the Rockaway neighborhood of Queens on Election Day.
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Voters waited for their chance to cast a ballot at P.S. 33 in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.
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Displaced from his assigned polling location, Larry Zassman of Oceanside marked his ballot via cell phone light at the generator-powered First United Methodist Church in Oceanside, N.Y.
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